Ruth 4:11

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

All the people, that was in the gate, answered, and the greater men in birth, We be witnesses; the Lord make this woman, that entereth into thine house, as Rachel and Leah, that builded the house of Israel, that she be ensample of virtue in Ephratah, and have a solemn name in Bethlehem;

Cross References

Genesis 23:10

Forsooth Ephron dwelled in the midst of the sons of Heth. And Ephron answered to Abraham, while all men heard that entered by the gate of that city, and said,

Genesis 24:60

and wished prosperities to their sister, and said, Thou art our sister, increase thou into a thousand thousands, and thy seed wield the gates of his enemies.

Genesis 29:16

Forsooth Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Leah, soothly the younger was called Rachel;

Genesis 29:25

And when Jacob had entered [in] to her by custom, when the morrow-tide was made, he saw Leah, and he said to his wife’s father, What is it that thou wouldest do? whether I served not thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

Genesis 29:32

And Leah childed a son conceived, and she called his name Reuben, and said, The Lord hath seen my meek-ness; now mine husband shall love me.

Genesis 35:23

the sons of Leah were, the first begotten Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

Genesis 35:24

the sons of Rachel were Joseph, and Benjamin;

1 Kings 21:8

Therefore she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed those [or them] with the ring of him; and she sent to the greater men in birth, and to the best men, that were in the city of Naboth, and dwelled with him.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem; Hareph, the father of Bethgader.

Psalm 132:6

Lo! we heard that the ark of the testament is in Ephratah [or we have heard of it in Ephratah]; we found it in the fields of the wood.

Proverbs 14:1

A wise woman buildeth her house; and an unwise woman shall destroy with hands, that is, with her evil works, an house builded.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is noble in the gates, when he sitteth with the senators of [the] earth.

Jeremiah 32:10

and I wrote in a book, and I sealed, and I gave witnesses. And I weighed silver in a balance;

Micah 5:2

And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, art little in the thousands of Judah; he that is the lordly governor in Israel shall go out of thee to me; and the going out of him is from [the] beginning, from days of everlastingness.

Matthew 2:6

And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah; for of thee a duke shall go out, that shall govern my people Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:7

And if he will not take the wife of his brother, which is due to him by law, the woman shall go to the gate of the city; and she shall ask the greater men in birth, and she shall say to them, My husband’s brother will not raise the seed of his brother in Israel, neither he will take me into marriage.

Deuteronomy 25:9

the woman shall go to him before the elder men of Israel, and she shall take his shoe off from his foot, and she shall spit into his face, and she shall say to them, Thus it shall be done to the man, that buildeth not his brother’s house;

Ruth 1:2

He was called Elimelech, and his wife Naomi, and his two sons, the one was called Mahlon, and the tother Chilion, they were Ephrathites of Bethlehem of Judah; and they entered into the country of Moab, and they dwelled there.